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• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ b. AḤMAD b. ḤASAN MEYMANDI

  C. E. Bosworth

  vizier to the Ghaznavid sultans Mawdud b. Masʿud and ʿAbd-al-Rašid b. Maḥmud, remaining in official service under the latter’s successor Farroḵzād b. Masʿud.

• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ BĀŠTĪNĪ

  J. Aubin

  First leader of the Sarbadār uprising of Bayhaq (14th-century). His career, like the entire history of the Sarbadārs, is related in a contradictory fashion by the Timurid period chroniclers. With appropriate details, he is pictured as violent and dissolute.

• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ BEG

  J. R. Perry

  (1176-1243/1762-63 to 1827-28), literary biographer, poet, and historian of the early Qajar period.

• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ LĀHĪJĪ

  W. Madelung

  Theologian and philosopher (and poet under the pen name FAYYĀŻ, 11th/17th century).

• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ MAYMANDĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  Ghaznavid vizier of the middle years of the 5th/11th century.

• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ NAYSABŪRĪ

  E. Baer

  Metalworker of the second half of the 6th/12th century.

• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ SAMARQANDĪ

  C. P. Haase

  Historian and scholar (1413-82).

• ʿABD-AL-REŻĀ KHAN

  M. Bayat

  (d. 1249/1833), deputy-governor and powerful noble of Yazd.

• ʿABD-AL-REŻĀ KHAN EBRĀHĪMĪ

  D. MacEoin

  fifth head of the Kermānī branch of the Šayḵī school of Shiʿism.

• ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD B. AFŻAL MOḤAMMAD

  M. Baqir

  Mughal editor and author (17th century)

• ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD ḤAMADĀNĪ

  M. Bayat

  Faqīh, author, and well-known Sufi master of the Neʿmatallāhī order (d. 1216/1801).

• ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD KHAN

  S. Maqbul Ahmad

  North Indian politician, administrator, and patron of the arts (17th-18th century).

• ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD ŠĪRĀZĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  Painter, calligrapher, and Mughal courtier (16th century). He entered the service of Homāyūn at Kabul in 956/1549 and remained an important artistic and governmental figure under Akbar (963-1014/1556-1605).

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• ʿABD-AL-SATTĀR LAHŪRĪ

  A. Camps

  author and translator in the reigns of Akbar and Jahāngīr.

• ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED (Potter)

  O. Watson

  A potter whose signature is found on a blue and black underglaze painted dish dated 971/1563.

• ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED (Author)

  D. Pingree

  8th/14th century author.

• ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED B. ZAYD

  P. Nwyia

  (d. 177/793), Sufi, the leading personality among the ascetics trained in the school of Ḥasan Baṣrī.

• ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED HAMADĀNĪ

  T. Yazici

  Son of a Naqšbandī shaikh, author (d. 1547).

• ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED JŪZJĀNĪ

  D. Pingree

  Pupil of Ebn Sīnā (980-1037).

• ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED MAŠHADĪ

  F. Cağman and P. P. Soucek

  Calligrapher active during the first half of the 10th/16th century.

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• ʿABD-AL-VAHHĀB BOHRĀ

  P. Saran

  chief judge (qāżī) in the reign of the Mughal emperor Awrangzēb.

• ʿABD-AL-VAHHĀB MAŠHADĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  a calligrapher of the 10th/16th century who lived most of his life in Mašhad.

• ʿABD-AL-VAHHĀB MOʿTAMAD-AL-DAWLA

  H. Javadi

  “NAŠĀṬ,” Qajar official and poet (1759-1829).

• ʿABD-AL-VAHHĀB SAČAL

  A. Schimmel

  Sindhi mystical poet (18th-early 19th century).

• ʿABD-AL-VĀSEʿ JABALĪ

  Ẕ. Ṣafā

  Persian poet, d. 555/1160.

• ABDADĀNA

  M. Dandamayev

  Region in western Media, mentioned in Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions and annals.

• ABDAGASES

  C. J. Brunner

  “great king” of the Pahlava dynasty in Drangiana, Arachosia, Gandhāra, and perhaps loosely over the Indus region.

• ʿABDAK AL-ṢŪFĪ

  B. Reinert

  an eccentric religious devotee of Kūfa, who also lived for periods at Baghdad, late 2nd/8th to early 3rd/9th centuries.

• ABDĀL

  J. Chabbi

  An Arabic technical term designating one of the categories of awlīāʾ (“friends of God,” Muslim saints).

• ABDĀL BEG

  E. Glassen

  one of the seven trusted Qezelbāš amirs (ahl-e eḵteṣāṣ) who, after the death of Solṭān ʿAlī (898/1493), accompanied the latter’s young brother and designated master of the Safavid order, Esmāʿīl, to Lāhīǰān, where he found refuge from the persecution of the Āq Qoyonlū rulers.

• ABDĀL ČEŠTĪ

  M. Imam

  described by Jāmī as the foremost among the shaikhs of Češt. He was born in 260/874.

• ABDĀL, QARA ŠEMSĪ

  T. Yazici

  (1244-1303/1828-86), a Turkish poet who also wrote poetry in Persian.

• ABDĀLĪ

  C. M. Kieffer

  ancient name of a large tribe, or more particularly of a group of Afghan tribes, better known by the name of Dorrānī since the reign of Aḥmad Šāh Dorrānī (1747-72). 

• ʿABDALLĀH

  L. Mackie

  Name appearing on four diverse, high-quality silks of the first half of the 17th century.

• ʿABDALLĀH (2)

  I. H. Siddiqi

  Author of Tārīḵ-e Dāʾūdī, fl. early 17th century.

• ʿABDALLĀH ANṢĀRĪ

  S. de Laugier de Beaureceuil

  Outstanding commentator of the Koran, traditionist, polemicist, and spiritual master (5th/11th century).

• ʿABDALLĀH B. AḤMAD

  Cross-Reference

  See EBN AL-BAYṬĀR.

• ʿABDALLĀH B. ʿĀMER

  J. Lassner

  Arab general and governor active in Iran, b. in Mecca in 4/626.

• ʿABDALLĀH B. EBRĀHĪM

  C. P. Haase

  Timurid khan (k. 1451).

• ʿABDALLĀH B. ʿĪSĀ

  L. Richter-Bernburg

  Medical author (early 5th/11th century).

• ʿABDALLĀH B. ḴĀZEM

  D. M. Dunlop

  Arab military leader, governor of Khorasan (d. 691-92).

• ʿABDALLĀH B. MAYMŪN AL-QADDĀḤ

  H. Halm

  Legendary founder of the Qarmatian-Ismaʿili doctrine and alleged forefather of the Fatimid dynasty.

• ʿABDALLĀH B. MOʿĀVĪA

  D. M. Dunlop

  Rebel in western Iran in 744-47.

• ʿABDALLĀH B. MOBĀRAK

  P. Nwyia

  Traditionist (736-97).

• ʿABDALLĀH B. NAJĀŠĪ

  ʿA. N. Monzavī

  Shiʿite governor of Ahvāz under the caliph Manṣūr (8th century).

• ʿABDALLĀH B. ʿOMAR

  ʿA. Ḥabībī

  Author of an Arabic monograph on the city of Balḵ (d. after 610/1213).

• ʿABDALLĀH B. ŠĀKER

  D. Pingree

  Expert in geometry (d. 1174-75).

• ʿABDALLĀH B. ṬĀHER

  C. E. Bosworth

  Governor of Khorasan (9th century).

• ʿABDALLĀH BAYĀNĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿABDALLĀH MORVĀRĪD.

• ʿABDALLĀH BEHBAHĀNĪ

  H. Algar

  Theologian, prominent leader of the constitutional movement (1840-1910).